If you hit the link above, about DA: Journeys you will learn that while it is free to play chapter 1, you will be charged for playing thetwo other chapters. In order for you to be able to save the game, you will have to get an EA Master account where you saved characters will be stored.

This fits well into EA's (and Bioware's) strategy for mocing the rpg genre forward:

EA's head honcho, as well as Ray and Greg from Bioware clearly see the future of gaming as digital in full. And yes, this implies that it will be necessary to be online all the time; they seem to forget that many people, especially in rurals area won't have an online-all-the time account available to them.